12-letter words containing o, c, y
- electrolysis — Chemical decomposition produced by passing an electric current through a liquid or solution containing ions.
- electrolytes — Plural form of electrolyte.
- electrolytic — Of, relating to, or using electrolysis.
- electrolyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of electrolyze.
- electrotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of electrotype.
- electrotyper — One who electrotypes.
- electrotypes — Plural form of electrotype.
- electrotypic — relating to, or resulting from, electrotypy
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- encyclopedia — An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects or about one particular subject are arranged for reference, usually in alphabetical order.
- encyclopedic — Comprehensive in terms of information.
- enemy action — offensive military action by your military enemy
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enteroclysis — A fluoroscopic X-ray of the small intestine.
- entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
- entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
- epicycloidal — Of or pertaining to an epicycloid.
- episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- erythrocytes — Plural form of erythrocyte.
- erythrocytic — Of or pertaining to erythrocytes.
- erythromycin — An antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. It is similar in its effects to penicillin.
- esoterically — In an esoteric manner.
- etymological — (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
- etymologicum — an etymological dictionary
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eurocurrency — the currency of any country held on deposit in Europe outside its home market: used as a source of short- or medium-term finance, esp in international trade, because of easy convertibility
- ex-directory — phone number: not listed publicly
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factory acts — laws relating to factories
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- factory work — work in a factory
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- feet of clay — a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person: He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fictionality — State or quality of being fictional.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures